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• Persona-Fluid Josie

  

  Her small self and mama have been enjoying a girls' weekend in Florida with friends. Claui reported back the following story: In the airport, someone asked Josi... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Irrational Exuberance

  

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  Posted on 11 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Almost Entirely About Poop

  

  "This is my medium-sized poop book," Josie told me as she plucked The Last Don from a bookshelf just outside the bathroom door. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Is So Excited

  

  Library play group is BACK! Hurry up, Meema! I had to see about EVERYTHING! I did puzzles. This baby said he missed me. Dance time was GREAT! I have some fancy... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• This Is the Part I Hate . . .

  

  And the Crows Took Their Eyes is getting closer to publication (pub date is October 16, 2020,) and I've just finished yet another read-through of the typeset... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I Hab A Bad Code in the Head

  

  Will schedule this post now and get to bed before 7 pm. These hopeful signs... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Writing Class at John C. Campbell

  

  From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion: Come June, on the 7th to the 13th, I'll be back at John C. Campbell for my eighth year of leading a class calle... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Floating World

  

  Island mountains rise Out of a sea of white mist In this floating world. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Green Resolutions

  

  So, Australia is on fire, the Amazon rain forest is being destroyed, there is more plastic in the ocean than fish, there are still children in cages and... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Stone Trolls

  

  In Tolkien's Middle Earth, sunlight can turn trolls to stone. Is that what happened here? Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

  

  My New Year's Day treat. A multi-generational novel centered around a grand house, its inhabitants, and their sometimes surprising obsessions. Love and hate... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Happy New Year!!!

  

  Can you see the future? May it be bright And full of beauty. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie and The Room

  

  When I stay with Meema and Grumpy, I like to play in The Room. My bed is there and lots and lots of my stuff. I have a box of dress up things... like my farmer... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shetland Binge

  

  My friendly local book pusher/enabler brought me a big old bunch of books a while back and I began with the first of the Shetland series and never looked back. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Trees Are Writing Messages on the Sky

  

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  Posted on 29 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Brain Still Hurts

  

  As I mentioned earlier, it is our family tradition to torment each other with riddling clues as to what is beneath the wrapping paper before the gift is... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Glimpset of Josie's Christmas

  

  This is a GIANT octopus Aunt Aileen crocheted... Eight long tentacles with suckers all up and down them! There was also a hedgehog! And a doctor kit... With a... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Miss Birdie and the Tamalada

  

  Why look who's here! And busy as you must be on Christmas Eve. Come right in and git you a chair. You got a house full, I reckon. Rosemary and her man stopped b... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Christmas Riddles

  

  Much of yesterday was taken up with wrapping presents and (this is the hard part) coming up with riddling clues as to what might be inside the package. I found... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Flowering Quince Thinks It's Spring

  

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  Posted on 22 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY